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Argentina’s Dirty War wasn’t an “excess” it’s glimpse of our hard right future
For todays hard right mess, you don't have to look back far to see how this works. Let's look at a real world example: Argentina’s Dirty War wasn’t an “excess”, a few bad generals, as our liberal friends might say. It was state terrorism, built deliberately and scaled region-wide through right-wing #mainstreaming, they called this Operation Condor at the time.
In South America, from the late 1960s into the 1976 coup, repression was already underway with Peronism. After the junta […]